The Dead Parents Society

This week, we're sharing teen books featuring orphans.  Here's a few of our favorites . . . .

 

Fruits Basket series by Natsuki Takaya
After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, high schooler Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out ... into a tent! Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Sohma clan, and it isn't long before the owners discover her secret. But, as Tohru quickly finds out when the family offers to take her in, the Sohmas have a secret of their own -- when touched by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac!

Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings-such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him. Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead?


More Books --
The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World by Amy Reed
Burden Falls by Kat Ellis
Forbidden by Eve Bunting
The Girl I Used to Be by April Henry
If the Witness Lied by Caroline B. Cooney
The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James
My Life With the Walter Boys by Ali Novak
Not If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom
The Orphan's Wish by Melanie Dickerson
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Promised Neverland series by Kaiu Shirai
The Reader by Traci Chee
Snow and Poison by Melissa de la Cruz

Animal Books Aren't Just for Little Kids

Do you love animals?  Want a good animal story to read?  Try one of these teen books featuring animals . . . .

Creepy Cat, v.1 by Cotton Valent

Flora moves into a mysterious mansion and finds it inhabited by a strange creature -- Creepy Cat! Thus begins her strange and sometimes dangerous life with a feline roommate.

Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

Bored with her proper, circumscribed life as a princess, Cimorene runs away to join a powerful, fascinating dragon named Kazul and encounters a host of adventures along the way.

Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow

Ian Gray isn't supposed to have a dog, but a lot of things that shouldn't happen end up happening anyway. And Gather, Ian's adopted pup, is good company now that Ian has to quit the basketball team, find a job, and take care of his mom as she tries to overcome her opioid addiction. 

More Books --

Ash's Cabin by Jen Wang

Cat + Gamer series by Wataru Nadatani

Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe

The Electric Kingdom by David Arnold

Herding Cats by Sarah Andersen

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

The Lovely and the Lost by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Me and Mr. Cigar by Gibby Haynes

What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold

Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce

Time Travel Tales

Start the new year off with a bang!  Read one of these tales about traveling through time.  Here's a few of our favorites . . . .

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.

Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix

When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.

The Homeward Bounders by Diana Wynne Jones

Once he becomes a pawn in a game played by a powerful group he calls "Them," twelve-year-old Jamie is repeatedly catapulted through space and time.

More Books --

The Bookshop of Dust and Dreams by Mindy Thompson

The Doll in the Garden by Mary Downing Hahn

Finn and Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop by Joshua Levy

The Glass Sentence by S.E. Grove

Joplin Wishing by Diane Stanley

Larklight by Philip Reeve

The Lincoln Project by Dan Gutman

The Mona Lisa Key by Liesl Shurtliff

Stealing the Sword by Wendy Mass

The T.Rex Attack by Rex Stone

This Again by Adam Borba

The Time Travel Twins by James Patterson